OH MY GOD SNL RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS

If your "satire" doesn't have anything worthwhile or even entertaining to say, maybe it should hit the editing room floor. All the good material MRAs give them and they invent "shut down two Planned Parenthoods"?

We shant place the government under petticoat rule5 points · 4 years ago

There's always reason to be concerned, but I doubt they will be able to parlay this into good publicity when new people come to find out what they're about.

"Oh, what activism do we do? Well just last year we flooded Occidental University's anonymous rape reporting system with 400 false rape claims. That was probably the biggest thing we've done in a decade. We also spend hours every day in the comments sections of any news article that mentions us calling are detractors bitches and cunts."

Haha, including all articles about this. I just found out about this skit and was linked to these threads by manboobz. Prior to that I found a times article that allowed me to watch this, and most of the 25 comments were MRAs saying how wrong the skit was while proving this stereotype you posted about them right.

Their shitty "Counter theory" needs as much attention as any fringe hate group which is none.

The biggest problem with this is that it gives them visitors, and a chance to throw some PR around just like how they did with the main thread. I notice that most of them are pretty openly shitty until something gets popular, then someone comes in with some fake egalitarian drivel and it gets upvoted rapidly.

"Look, we're the super rational ones here! We would never bash feminism, laugh at women struggling, say rape is less common than the accusations thereof, dismiss racism and trans issues, support racism and transphobia, or scream about how we want to piss on women!"

Yeah, I'm worried about the uptick in publicity. It's like the "Fight George Zimmerman!" thing. Here are a bunch of people who hate George Zimmerman, and they're treating him like a rock star. Why? Weren't they mad that he shot a someone a second ago?

If you hate George Zimmerman, don't give him any more attention. The less attention we give him, the better.

I'm fuckin speechless. I love satire as much as the next person...but this isn't satire. It's an ignorant misconception. I mean, seriously? Painting Men's Rights as a bunch of (quite literally) skinny, emasculated, weak virgins who want to shut down Planned Parenthoods, and fight for the "right" for men to get paid more than women. That's...that's the general picture that this sketch presents Men's Rights as. This is literally the most mainstream exposure the movement has ever gotten, and it consists of the image of a skinny virgin guy, who has a mail-order bride from Venezuela, jumping up and down on a bed saying "I shut the down the bad place" because he shut down a Planned Parenthood. What. The. Fuck.

And it's not even fucking funny. I can think of plenty of scenarios for satire concerning the Men's Rights movement, I see it everyday in this subreddit. Some posh-type kinda bougey guy, constantly rebutting anything the people are saying around him by saying, "Well, typical feminsts hrm meh meh creepy laugh." Obviously it's not the highest humor, but at least I can fucking see that this is a shitty person in Men's Rights that's vocal and deserves being made fun of. But...this?

This is going to be a lot of people's first introduction into the Men's Rights movement, or at least reinforcing some mutterings they've heard from their friends. This is the public perception of the Men's Rights movement, or close to it. Apparently it's nothing to take seriously because all Men's Rights fights for is the right to be paid more than women and quite literally shutting down needed options available to women. I guess, to sum up my feelings, Fuck SNL, fuck their third-wave-feminist liberal progressivism bullshit, and fuck their ignorant ass feminists writers for even thinking this is worth putting on television. I'm appalled.

pssst... hey misters... THE MISANDRY IS COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE! Just shows that, even though it was immensely shitty that the guy's physique and sex life were made jokes in that sketch, MRAs totally buy into that manly-man body-shaming, virgin-shaming ideal.

I finally figured out how to watch it (thanks Proxmate and Hulu) and didn't laugh. I'm not sure I find the show generally very funny - the few times I've watched it, I haven't cracked a smile. I didn't laugh at the sketch that everyone loves on reddit about sexual harassment and attractiveness.

But the best part of it is how misters are losing their minds. They sure don't mind satire about women getting raped from AVFM, but they have big problems with being made fun of themselves.

You know, I wondered about that. Is it racist to portray someone with a poor to middling grasp of English? It certainly can be, and it certainly has been. But I dunno. I've been her before. I was the one who could just barely follow what the hell everyone was talking about, but I did my best to join the conversation anyway. And the results were similar.

I mean, none of the native-English speaking women were talking down to her. Well, maybe a little. The whole "she's a light in our life" thing.

The more I think about this, the more I wonder. Can a comedy be structured so that part of the funny comes from a character's poor grasp of the language without being racist?

I found the portion of the sketch where she was proud of his "activism" without realizing the practical implications of said "activism" - then having it gradually revealed to her and to the rest of the group - to be pretty hilarious. Her ESL status, while admittedly being a possibly offensive caricature, seemed to serve mostly as an expository mechanism in that someone would be forced to spell out to her (and therefore the audience) what it is that MRAs actually believe. She was definitely supposed to be channeling Gloria from Modern Family, and there were definitely other troublesome aspects. But you have to start somewhere with an audience that is mostly ignorant of the mere existence of the MRA, and I smiled/chuckled through the whole thing.

You might have heard that /r/MensRights is a moderate MRA hub. They’re just advocating for the rights of men, right? What’s so bad about that?
But all is not as it seems. Underneath the face lie toxic misogyny, GSMphobia, racism, and worse. The subreddit, and the movement itself, runs on hatred.
We are here to expose the hatred and bring it to light.